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Trip to Portugal

Amsterdam is an awesome city, but dang it rains a lot! Early last week, we booked last minute flights to Portugal for Wednesday - Saturday. The weather was perfect, Noah was able to work from there, we got in a ton of beach time and it was great to take our first European vacation. What was supposed to be a quick 3-hour flight turned into an all day affair getting there. Our flight was very delayed and then I screwed up on getting us to the house but we eventually made it and the kids were once again tough little travelers. Emmett slept the entire flight there and Soph and Finn watched a movie. We landed early evening, grabbed some dinner in downtown Faro and then jumped on a bus to Praia de Faro - Faro Beach-which was about 10 minutes away. The beach was a beautiful stretch of an island with one road right down the middle. There were lots of tourists, snack bars, restaurants and surf rental places. We went to the beach twice each day. Our house was across the street from a great restaurant called Wax Restobar-which was right on the beach. Finn was introduced to his new favorite food - fish sticks. He had them three times in three days. We had ice cream daily and it was just a nice few days together.
On the train from Amsterdam to the airport. Not having a car is quite an adventure.

Once again this 2 year old schlepped his suitcase everywhere we went. People everywhere think he is so funny.

Soph and E napped one afternoon while Noah worked, so Finnster and I got a whole afternoon alone!

We ate ice cream on the beach behind our house on Thursday night. Finn was real quiet and turned around and said, "I made this. It's all of our initials - including Jackson's. It says NAFSEJ was here. Do not touch."

No bedtimes. No schedules. Some days, no naps. Ahhhhh!!

We saved a couple bucks on the Airbnb - honestly it was maybe one notch above camping - but this was the backyard so we sucked it up. 

Beach girl - complete with her goggles.

Finn just chilling after third round of fish sticks. 

Sunset at the beach.

Last night in Faro!

Oh, playing nice together. Lasted a whole 2 minutes.

Me and my boys.

Mr. Worldwide. He's seriously like a 25 year old bachelor trapped inside a 2 year old body.

One last view of Faro Beach. 

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  1. UnknownJune 28, 2016 at 1:47 PM

    I think it's all the pregnancy hormones, but every picture of the kids makes me want to cry! I want to squeeze them all through the computer. Send me crying/melting down Emmett to snuggle!! xoxo

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